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Author Archives: Miles


A bowl full of Moodles

The countdown to the 2006 Sydney Moodle Conference is almost complete with the first keynote kicking off at 9:15am tomorrow morning. Its been almost two years since we first started evaluating potential candidates for our much needed Collaborative Workspace and I must admit that I initially gave Moodle the thumbs down! It was […]

One step closer to a compliant google

One of our busiest site’s interfaces is getting a serious accessibility and standards-compliance overhaul, something I’ve been looking forward to doing for a while. I’m in the midst of development and rapidly approaching the launch deadline, but working on the search interface got me thinking about the recent Accessible Google Search that came out […]

Passion-centric online communities

Audio and notes from Ted Rheingold’s talk at the recent Carson Workshops summit: The Future of Webapps. I’ve been well aware of the buzz surrounding the summit and have been patiently waiting for podcasts to appear on the sites of the various speakers or their entourages. Ted’s talk was titled ‘The State, Future […]

How Web 2.0 aware are you?

This Web 2.0 awareness test is a humourous take on the hype surrounding the proliferation of web 2.0 applications. Its also a slightly scary example of how easy it is to fetch information about a user with javascript.
Part disturbing, part humour, this is a built-overnight, fun “Web 2.0 Awareness Test” based on a combination […]